Tenafeate Creek One Tree Hill Montepulciano 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Tenafeate Creek One Tree Hill Montepulciano 2023.

Tenafeate Creek One Tree Hill Montepulciano 2023
$35, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Mount Lofty Ranges zone.

There’s a lot going on with this wine. In many (and most) ways it’s generous and abundant, its flavour of raspberry, redcurrant, smoked meats and peppercorns given an attractive coating of cedarwood, malt and woodsmoke. Everyone will love the general flavour profile of this wine. The finish of this wine is a slightly different story; it’s dry, serious, stern almost, and tickled with a nut-shell bitterness, almost amaro-like. It’s starts off fun but then turns very grown up. It’s a wine to be reckoned with. It should cellar well too. 91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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